Open AccessVariation in Access to the Liver Transplant Waiting List in the United States
Author(s) -
Amit Mathur,
Valarie B. Ashby,
Douglas S. Fuller,
Min Zhang,
Robert M. Merion,
Alan B. Leichtman,
John D. Kalbfleisch
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/01.tp.0000443223.89831.85
Subject(s) - medicine , liver transplantation , demographics , liver disease , united network for organ sharing , demography , transplantation , chronic liver disease , waiting list , emergency medicine , cirrhosis , sociology
We sought to compare liver transplant waiting list access by demographics and geography relative to the pool of potential liver transplant candidates across the United States using a novel metric of access to care, termed a liver wait-listing ratio (LWR).